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Started by Prince Glittersnatch III, November 22, 2010, 09:04:16 PM

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B105J20101202
Swedish police said on Thursday that technical problems hindering the arrest of Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, had been overcome, and a British newspaper said he was in Britain.

A Swedish court upheld an arrest order for the 39-year-old Australian for alleged sexual crimes, refusing to let him appeal a lower court's ruling. He denies the allegations.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B00F020101201
U.S. authorities could face insurmountable legal hurdles if they try to bring criminal charges against elusive WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, even if he sets foot on U.S. soil.

The Justice Department is investigating a series of leaks of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents that the whistleblower website has provided to news media and made public on its own website.

But three specialists in espionage law said prosecuting someone like Assange on those charges would require evidence the defendant was not only in contact with representatives of a foreign power but also intended to provide them with secrets.

No such evidence has surfaced, or has even been alleged, in the case of WikiLeaks or Assange, an Australian-born former computer hacker who has become an international celebrity.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AT66820101201?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r4:c0.064118:b39967436:z0
Ecuador on Tuesday backed off the idea of inviting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to visit the country as President Rafael Correa accused the whistleblower website of breaking the law by releasing U.S. documents.

It sure looks like the U.S. is calling in every favor, threat and anything else they have to run Assange to ground.

The Good Reverend Roger

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The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Charley Brown on December 03, 2010, 07:17:13 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 03, 2010, 07:14:38 PM
GO JULIAN GO!

I don't know if this is going to end well for him.

Fuck no.  They're gonna squash him like a bug.  He's a dead man walking.

But I want to see how long he can run/hide from the bastards.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

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The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Nigel on December 03, 2010, 07:22:52 PM
He's doomed. I'm sad.

Beats working in a cube for 40 years, and then dying without even a splash.

He's managed to gain the direct, undivided attention of THE ENTIRE MACHINE™.  There's a kind of glory in that.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Adios

Because of all of this he may very well be the last one ever.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Charley Brown on December 03, 2010, 07:29:00 PM
Because of all of this he may very well be the last one ever.

I disagree.

Shove down hard enough, and the weird shit pops up between your fingers and takes off like a bat out of hell.

I don't think there'll be another one just like him, but expect more of this sort of thing as the vice tightens.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Adios

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 03, 2010, 07:31:53 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 03, 2010, 07:29:00 PM
Because of all of this he may very well be the last one ever.

I disagree.

Shove down hard enough, and the weird shit pops up between your fingers and takes off like a bat out of hell.

I don't think there'll be another one just like him, but expect more of this sort of thing as the vice tightens.

I hope you are right.

He needs to go hide with Bin Laden, that fucker knows how to hide.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Charley Brown on December 03, 2010, 07:34:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 03, 2010, 07:31:53 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 03, 2010, 07:29:00 PM
Because of all of this he may very well be the last one ever.

I disagree.

Shove down hard enough, and the weird shit pops up between your fingers and takes off like a bat out of hell.

I don't think there'll be another one just like him, but expect more of this sort of thing as the vice tightens.

I hope you are right.

He needs to go hide with Bin Laden, that fucker knows how to hide.

Well, it WOULD make the New Scum lose their fucking minds, but that's not how he operates.

This guy always seems to be in two places at the same time, not missing entirely.

I wonder if he has a twin?
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Juana

Or someone who looks enough like him anyway?


I hope he can hide out long enough to get more documents and get 'em on the web. Insult to injury. "You've been after me for ages and look, I still got more stuff out to the public!"
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Cain

His presence in London is confirmed, British police are "processing" the Interpol arrest warrant.

As an aside, I can see one major problem if the Powers That Be are attempting to smear Assange with this Sweden thing: reading the charges, he basically had consensual sex with two Swedish ladies, at the same time (which then somehow changed into nonconsensual sex - of course this is entirely possible, just very unlikely to be revealed in the same week the cables are leaked).

So not only is he an international man of mystery and the World's Greatest Spy (or words to those effect from Lieberman), he's a stud in the bedroom as well.  A threesome with two Swedish babes?  Hell yeah.  I'd support this guy on that principle alone.

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It's almost like the British would rather allow the leaks to come out than to arrest him. I hope that is the case.

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